Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

Albert Camus

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

Albert Camus

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love — first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Albert Camus

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

Albert Camus

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.

Albert Camus

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

Albert Camus

We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.

Albert Camus

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.

Albert Camus

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Albert Camus

I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Albert Camus

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Albert Camus

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

Albert Camus